Kellen Lawson

@kellenlawson.bsky.social

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NPP Fellow NASA-Goddard. Studying exoplanets and circumstellar disks with high-contrast imaging. He/him. kdlawson.github.io

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A screenshot of the top of a slide titled "Running Winnie", in reference to the Winnie software. Three pictures of a dog running are included, with the caption "Also running Winnie", in reference to the fact that Winnie is also the name of my dog.
A screenshot of a tweet reading as follows: To everyone who got bad JWST news today, here's what I often say to myself after reading a negative proposal review: ... ... ... "WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PROPOSAL DOESN'T EXPLAIN [X]!? THERE'S LITERALLY AN ENTIRE HALF A PAGE EXPLAINING [X]" Hope that helps!
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Animation showing an iterative deconvolution procedure applied to the coronagraphic 3.5 micron image of the edge-on AU Mic debris disk from JWST's NIRCam instrument. The initial frame shows the disk as observed by JWST, with significant blurring from NIRCam's coronagraph point spread function (PSF). Over successive iterations, the blurring is corrected, ultimately producing a sharp disk profile much more comparable to the profile seen in prior observations at shorter wavelengths (e.g., from Hubble's STIS).
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